A Very Silly Little Poem
Look, poetry! Just a very silly little something I came up with about a month ago between classes while watching a raven outside the Econ building. So. Read away, and enjoy it.
A Very Silly Little Poem
by Kate Galey
Ravens don’t read literature,
I’m relatively sure.
When you see one out your window
and quoth thee ‘nevermore,’
they don’t get the reference
to Edgar’s poor Lenore.
How odd it must be for them,
the same response each day
when all they want is a quick worm lunch
before they go along their way.
“What is this ‘nevermore’ thing
that people always say?”
“Is it because we’re black?” they must ask
the other ravens in the tree.
“They never say ‘nevermore’
to any birds but we.
Why must they say that very word
to every raven that they see?”
So, good folk, next time you spot
a big black bird, for me,
don’t quote ‘The Raven’ to the raven;
Instead just let it be.
Only then can we put and end
to this birdie bigotry.
